Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
A name rather than a word. People, places, peoples, languages, gods and characters.
Names of peoples are the biggest group. abipon is an Argentine people, abdali an Afghan tribe, abarambo a Congolese one. There are literary names too. abhorson is Shakespeare's executioner and arthemis is an old spelling of Artemis.
Dictionaries of this age printed names in a separate section at the back, so a definition lookup never finds them.
1,723 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | What it names |
|---|---|
| kunmiut | Inuit group name, in -miut, people of |
| kyklopes | Greek, the Kyklopes, the Cyclopes |
| kyklops | Greek, Kyklops, the Cyclops |
| kyurin | Kyurin, the Lezgian people of Daghestan |
| kyurinish | the Kyurin (Lezgian) language |
| lahontan | Lake Lahontan, prehistoric lake in Nevada |
| lapithaean | of the Lapithae, a Thessalian people |
| laplandian | of Lapland, a Laplander |
| laralia | Roman festival of the Lares |
| larnaudian | of Larnaud, Jura; Bronze Age epoch in France |
| latinian | of Latium or the Latin people |
| latinic | pertaining to Latin |
| laudism | the church doctrines of Abp. William Laud |
| laudist | a follower of Abp. William Laud |
| lautu | Chin people and language of western Burma |
| learchus | Learchus, son of Athamas in Greek myth |
| lehmer | Lehmer, mathematician (Lehmer sieve) |
| lenaean | of the Lenaea, Athenian festival of Dionysus |
| lenaeum | the Lenaeum, Athenian precinct of Dionysus |
| leonist | a Waldensian, one of the Leonistae |
| lesgh | Lesgh, a Lezgian people of the Caucasus |
| lilburne | English surname (John Lilburne, the Leveller) |
| lillibullero | Lillibullero, the 17th-c. Williamite ballad |
| lindabrides | Lindabrides, romance heroine, a kept woman |
| lisuarte | Lisuarte, king in the Amadis romances |
| liyuan | Liyuan, the Tang "Pear Garden" opera academy |
| lludd | Lludd, Welsh legendary king |
| loammi | Lo-ammi, biblical name, "not my people" |
| lochlin | Ossianic name for Scandinavia |
| locrine | legendary British king, Shakespeare apocrypha |
| lodowic | Lodowic, old form of Ludovic/Louis |
| lohengrin | Grail knight, hero of Wagner's opera |
| longaville | lord in Love's Labour's Lost |
| louiqa | Louiqa, a female given name |
| loukas | Loukas, Greek form of the name Luke |
| lucentio | character in The Taming of the Shrew |
| lucombe | Lucombe oak, named for nurseryman Lucombe |
| lucrece | Lucrece, heroine of Shakespeare's poem |
| lufberry | Lufbery, WWI airman (Lufberry circle) |
| luggnagg | island in Gulliver's Travels |
| lushai | people and language of Mizoram |
| lushei | Lushei, a Mizo clan |
| lusiad | the Lusiad, Camoens' Portuguese epic |
| lusian | poetic, a Portuguese, of Lusus |
| macareus | Macareus, son of Aeolus in Greek myth |
| macflecknoe | Dryden's satire 'Mac Flecknoe' |
| madecase | Madecasse, Malagasy, of Madagascar |
| madegassy | Madegass, Malagasy, of Madagascar |
| madelon | Madelon, French female name and WWI song |
| madhva | Madhva, Hindu philosopher and his sect |
| maeonides | Maeonides, epithet of Homer |
| maglemose | Maglemose, Danish Mesolithic culture |
| magyaran | Magyar, Hungarian |
| mahra | Mahra, a people and region of South Arabia |
| mahran | of the Mahra of South Arabia |
| maioli | Maioli, style of Italian bookbinding |
| majidieh | Mejidieh, Ottoman order of merit |
| makoua | Makua, a Bantu people of Mozambique |
| malaclypse | Malaclypse the Younger, Discordian pen name |
| malagigi | Malagigi, enchanter of Carolingian romance |
| malchus | Malchus, the high priest's servant in the Gospels |
| malemuit | Malemute, an Inupiat people of Alaska |
| malemuits | Malemutes, Alaskan Inupiat people |
| malinke | Malinke, a West African people and language |
| malkite | Melkite, an Eastern-rite Christian |
| malvasian | of Malvasia (Monemvasia), malmsey wine |
| manavendra | Sanskrit name/title, lord of men |
| mangbattu | Mangbetu, a people of the Congo |
| mantzu | Man-tzu, a people of southwestern China |
| maracan | Maracan, South American language stock |
| maranhao | Maranhão, Brazilian state |
| mareotid | of Lake Mareotis, Egypt |
| margarelon | Margarelon, bastard son of Priam |
| marmion | Marmion, hero of Scott's poem |
| marnix | Philips van Marnix, Dutch writer |
| marquois | Marquois scales, a drafting instrument |
| martenot | Martenot, of the ondes Martenot |
| martinico | Martinico, old name of Martinique |
| maryknoll | Maryknoll, Catholic mission society |
| masais | Masai (Maasai) people, plural |
| maskoi | Mascoi, Paraguayan indigenous people |
| massachuset | Massachusett people and language |
| maugis | Maugis, enchanter of Charlemagne romance |
| maugrabee | Maghrebi, a Moor of North Africa |
| maulawiyah | Mawlawiyah, the Mevlevi dervish order |
| maupassant | Guy de Maupassant, French writer |
| maximite | Maximite, Hudson Maxim's explosive |
| mayathan | Mayathan, the Yucatec Maya language |
| mayeye | Mayeye, a Texas indigenous people |
| megalensian | of the Megalesia, Roman festival of Cybele |
| megarensian | of Megara, ancient Greek city |
| megarianism | doctrine of the Megarian school of philosophy |
| mekilta | Aramaic rabbinic midrash on Exodus |
| melanippe | Greek myth, an Amazon; also a woman's name |
| melanippus | Greek personal name (Melanippus) |
| meliadus | Arthurian romance character, father of Tristan |
| menevian | geology, Cambrian stage named from Menevia |
| menkib | Arabic-derived star name, "the shoulder" |
| mermnad | member of the Mermnad dynasty of Lydia |
| mermnadae | the Mermnadae, Lydian royal dynasty |
The other lists filed alongside this one.
